"Agropolis International Newsletter"

This bilingual newsletter (French/English) provides information on the activities of the scientific community in particular on international issues.

Published from october 2008 to november 2015

The newsletter is published 3 or 4 times a year, it is widely disseminated to numerous countries. It deals with events, partnerships, cooperation, publications, presentation of laboratories or training sessions.

N° 17 - November 2015

Table of content

Focus
NIPN initiative hosted and coordinated by Agropolis International
An AgroVallée project in Montpellier for the first half of 2016

Publications
- Dossiers d’Agropolis International n°21 'Vigne et vin' (November 2015, 76 pages, in French) - This Dossier will be published in English
in 2016.
- ‘Climate change: impact and adaptation’,in the Dossiers d’Agropolis International collection, n° 20 – February
2015. Available in English and French.
- Proceedings of the International Encounters on Family Farming and Research that took place from 1 to 3
June 2014 in Montpellier (France). Trilingual document (English, French and Spanish), 324 pages, April 2015

Training : CIHEAM–IAMM (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier),an Agropolis International member institution, has now been accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research to issue national Master’s degrees

Partnerships
- Creation of a European Labex UPM — a Virtual Laboratory of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) — at Agropolis International, Montpellier (France).
- Arrival of new coordinators in Montpellier for EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira
de Pesquisa Agropecuária) Labex Europe–Brazil and INTA (Instituto Nacional de
Tecnología Agropecuaria) LABINTEX–Argentina
- Agrocluster in Campinas (Brazil) The official launch of the Brazilian ‘Agropolo’ (agrocluster) in Campinas took place on 21 September 2015
- Kyoto University (Japan)

What's on in Languedoc-Roussillon?
- Focus on the activities of international organizations located on the Agropolis Campus 2002-2012: 10th anniversary of the Labex Europe of EMBRAPAArgentina strengthens partnerships in Europe 4 March 2013 - A historic day for the CGIAR Consortium

Just out
- Les Dossiers d'Agropolis International series : n° 16 "Green technologies" (Available in french and english)
- Executive summary 'SESAME - Water and Food Security - A vital challenge for the Mediterranean region', published on the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March 2013
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Quae editions

What's on in Languedoc-Roussillon?
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LabEx Europe—an External Laboratory of Embrapa—has been hosted by Agropolis International for 10 years
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PROCISUR (Cooperative Program for Agri-food and Agroindustrial Technological Development of the Southern Cone of IICA – Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture)
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An Argentinian LABINTEX set up in Montpellier

Cooperation
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European Project ‘European Network of Innovation and Technology in the Agricultural and Food sectors’ (RED-ITAA 2011-2012)

Training
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The UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems was launched in Montpellier in January 2012

Just published
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French, English and Spanish versions of the Agropolis special issue n° 14 ‘Water resources: Preservation and management’
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A new website for ERG SYAL.
- A light Spanish version of the Agropolis International website is now online.

In brief
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Agropolis International at the 6th World Water Forum* (12 – 17 March 2012, Marseille, France)

Agropolis International Association
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The Greater Narbonne Urban Community has been an Agropolis International member since July 2011

Zoom
- The INRA Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology (LBE) based in Narbonne (France) conducts research focused on the environmental biorefinery concept

What's on in Languedoc-Roussillon?:
- Inauguration of LabEx Agro
in Montpellier
- The regional scientific community mobilized for the 6th World Water Forum (March 2012, Marseille,
France)
-The Agropolis International
Association celebrated
its 25th anniversary in 2011
- The 17th annual meeting
of the European Initiative
for Agricultural Research
for Development (EIARD)
coordination platform

Zoom: CEFE, the largest French ecology research laboratory, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011

Just published:
- A CSFD leaflet on pastoralism in dryland areas
- A prospective study entitled ‘Food
security in the Mediterranean Basin>
for 2030: qualitative and quantitative
aspects/SAMAQQ’

Cooperation:
- Agropolis International welcomed a delegation
from the Argentinian INTA*, headed by
its President Carlos Casamiquela
- A delegation from the Research Support Foundations
(FAPs) for Brazilian States on a visit to Montpellier

Training:
-Agropolis
International
is now a partner
of the AVERROES
programme
-A Master’s programme
on Water

What's on in Montpellier?:
- G20 agricultural research systems address food security
- A visit to France by Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009

Just published:
- An English version of the Agropolis International thematic series «Biodiversity—Science for humans and nature»-Final report of the ARP PARME
Forward-thinking Workshop: “What research
and what partnerships for the Mediterranean?”

Cooperation:
- The Department of Hérault and the chilean Region Coquimbo pursue their cooperation
- Cooperation between Algeria and the regional scientific community

Training: Montpellier SupAgro, in conjunction with Agropolis International, is to endow a chair in World Food Supply with official UNESCO sanction

Arcad, an agrobiodiversity resource centre
at the heart of the Montpellier scientific community

Cooperation: The Agropolis International scientific community
is supporting the reform of the National Higher Agronomy School.
(ENSA) in Algiers, Algeria

Cooperation: Agropolis International is participating,
together with the regional agricultural
cooperation federation (FRCA-LR),
in the the RED-ITAA project*

Zoom: 13 research teams unite under the AGAP banner

Training: Montpellier SupAgro and CEPEL new masters

In brief:A call
for session
proposals has
been issued,
with a 31 March
deadline, for
the 13th International Congress of
Ethnobiology in 2012 (CISE). The scientists get behind the
International Year of Forests.

Just published:13th number of the Dossiers d’Agropolis series
"Biodiversity: Science for humans
and nature"

In brief:Review of the International
Mid-Term Meeting “The Future of
Natural Rubber” on the European
EU-PEARLS project (EU-based
Production and Exploitation
of Alternative Rubber and
Latex Sources), 14-15 October
2010, Agropolis International,
Montpellier

Montpellier - World capital of agricultural research for development
The French candidate city of Montpellier chosen to host the headquarters of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Agro2010 - summit meeting for European agriculture

Cooperation: Review of the ARCUS project final seminar (2007-2010),
which focused on French-Chinese cooperation
on sustainable development

Biodiversity and Agricultures,
hot topic in Montpellier: Several international events will be held in
Montpellier over the coming months around one
of the major areas of interest for the regional
research community.